October 8, 2015 Neto Baptiste for Observer News Antigua

Former world 100-meter sprint champion Kim Collins has hinted that he could retire at the end of the 2016 International track & field season. Sooner or later, everyone will find themselves in this position. Even if you have adequate money saved, you may have taken out insurance plans throughout the years that are no longer useful. Depending on your eligibility for a life settlement fund, you may be able to cash them out (read more on this on https://www.paradigmsettlements.com/).

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St Kitts & Nevis athlete made the revelation during an interview with the host of the Good Morning Jojo sports show, Joseph “Jojo” Apparicio, on Antigua’s Observer Radio on Tuesday.

“I want to go one more year, next year, at 40. I will be done, over, I think that’s it. My body feels great and I feel like I could go another five years, but I say one more. I want to finish when Kim Collins wants to finish and not when other people say,” he said.

Having competed in six Olympics, 10 World Championships and three World Indoor Championships, Collins said the time has come to focus on other aspects of life.

“The early days of the training, like now, is the hard part. Once you get into January and start competing then you’re good, but it’s just that it gets lonely sometimes being out there … that’s the difficult part, being away from your family and your loved one for so long. Sometimes, I would be away for like four months straight in the summer and two months in the winter and that’s six months in the year that you are gone,” the sprinter said.

Collins won the 100 meter event at the 2003 World Championships in France where he clocked 10.07 to beat Darrel Brown of T&T and Darren Campbell of Great Britain.

He was honoured at the CASI Awards held here in Antigua two weekends ago.